> Many rented just a bed for half a day! They slept, and the other half the other person, who worked in night shift, slept on it.
This is not unheard of for south Asian immigrants in European cities, which typically do hard, low paid work (car cleaners, gig economy delivery "partners" etc).
All that for what ? So people can order take away in Berlin from a place that's 10 minutes away from them by bike, because they clubbed too hard last night. And the profit finds its way to America (doordash owns Wolt).
> All that for what ? So people can order take away in Berlin from a place that's 10 minutes away from them by bike, because they clubbed too hard last night. And the profit finds its way to America (doordash owns Wolt).
But at least people are getting paid right? The alternative is people staying in their hometown and not making any money.
I'm not so sure about that. Accepting the existence of such working conditions for marginal (if not questionable) benefits lowers the working conditions for everyone, and in a system with social benefits & free healthcare it could arguably be net negative in total.
Regarding unemployment in people's hometowns, unfortunately this is not a problem that can be solved with shitty jobs. Even if xxx people find a shitty job, there will be 100*xxx people left over.
Everyone talks about unemployment when what we should be talking about is the inability to get seed capital or expertise to start a business, and given you actually get one started the casting of value moats by hyperscaled firms that bring the taint of diversified, hyper-optimization, and consequent elevation of the barriers to entry for everyone else.
We all want to talk the investor/capitalist game, but nobody wants to recognize the fact the world we're in Washington built on much greater levels of competition, less consolidation, and more fiscal risk/insecurity. .arguably, in capitalism, it seems to me that the velocity of money is most important, and we've got massive amounts of it bottlenecked at the top of the pyramid instead of at the bottom where the actual organic distributed optimizers are.
Yes, I forgot to add this. I saw some shocking examples from Honk Kong, I think, where immigrants rent just a bed-cell.
Not unheard of here in Australia either.
Not unheard of = incredibly rare.
Bullshit. At list in Germany. Here, the state benefits are so high, that the majority of illegal immigrants and "refugees" can have a comfortable life and procreate without having to think about feeding their offsprings, whereas the domestic population must pay ever increasing taxes to enable their lifestyle.
As I'm sure you're aware, German parents get 200-300€ per child (Kinderzuschlag). And then tax reductions.
That said, if we want less immigrants maybe we could stop helping the US and Israel with their wars in the middle east or coups in Africa ?
It's exactly 250 € per child. If you are sustaining your life expenses yourself, it's just a small fraction of your tax money you get back. Fake asylum seekrs don't pay anything, hey just get support and procreate. They are a financial net negative for the society.
The system as is is encouraging the wrong kind of children, where children are assets for non-working, and a liability for working people.
First thing I would do to fix this is to remove child support handouts in cash. I would make it a tax credit instead, so only people who do productive work and pay taxes would get tax benefits.
“Get government benefits and mooch off the dole” just doesn’t sound like a realistic portrayal of an asylum seeker, whether real or just for economic opportunity. Germany might be different, but I know in America all our immigrants are crazy hardworking.
In America everyone is crazy hardworking period, because there is zero socialism.
Here (EU) in many countries it is possible to not work and survive, with varying levels of compromise
> In America everyone is crazy hardworking period, because there is zero socialism.
Spoken like a true European who has never lived in the United States
You are not wrong there, but let me remind you that Germany has had a fertility rate lower than replacement since 1970. I don't think disincentivising anyone would be the way to go.
> the wrong kind of children
this is a disturbing phrase
Don’t believe all the bullshit you read in your racist echo chamber. You look really foolish when you repewt it in public.